Alarm bell rings on bootup

[Darren]

Hello all

Has anybody encountered this bizarre situation where upon logging into
your desktop profile, your computer's speakers/sound card begin
blaring continuous alarm rings/sirens? This problem occured a few
times last year, after which it never became an issue again. Suddenly
2 days ago, this alarm ringing issue has re-emerged, this time
reccuring with nearly every reboot.

I've checked all the .wav files within Winnt/media and none of those
sounds match the alarm I'm getting. I also verified that all the
services running upon startup are services that Windows 2000 server
requires and starts by default.

All responses are kindly appreciated!

Darren

 

[steve]

Have you checked the Bios settings to see how they are
set? Some Bios have alarms when a certain voltage or temp
is exceeded. Also some shareware programs like
motherboard monitor will look at those settings and kick
off alarms if it doesn't like what it sees. You could have
something mis-set such as alarm if temp deviates more than
X but there is no temp for that source assigned in the
software or the wromng chipset is selected. (you might
have to see program to understand what I mean).

Try opening task manager and look at the processes that
are running and compare them to a similar machine that
doesn't do it. ou can try closing processes and see if
that stops it. Does it run in safe mode? If not then it
is likely a program.